Dream Dinners coming to East Northport

Meals being made at an already-open Dream Dinners franchise.

By Deborah S. Morris
deborah.morris@newsday.com

The question, “What’s for dinner?” may never be the same again for East Northport residents thanks to an innovative meal assembly store opening soon.

The Dream Dinners franchise is coming to the Blue Ribbon Plaza at 3028 Jericho Turnpike thanks to residents Mindy Rogers and Betsy Hall. The store offers a new way to answer the age old question and helps to eliminate the stress of daily menu planning, grocery shopping, prep-work and clean-up by moving the process out of home kitchens into specially equipped retail outlets.

“We’re already getting a great response from the local community and are very excited to be bringing this valuable service to East Northport,” Rogers said.
Dream Dinners works by letting customers preview a monthly menu online, select a menu and then attend a meal assembly session at a local Dream Dinners retail location.

At that session consumers rotate among refrigerated recipe stations, scooping cut and prepped uncooked ingredients into the provided baking pans or zip-top freezer bags. The uncooked dinners are taken home and placed in the freezer to be enjoyed in the weeks ahead. The whole process takes two hours and averages $260 for 12, 6-serving dinners, or around $3.60 per serving.

A grand opening will be held Thursday from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. The East Northport Dream Dinners will be the first meal-assembly store to open in the local area.

Attendees at the East Northport grand opening will have an opportunity to win a chest freezer with a session sign up, as well as the opportunity to receive a free marinated steak dinner. In addition, for each customer who signs up for a session, a donation will be made to Have-a-Heart Children’s Cancer Society to assist families going through the difficult and costly process of treatment for their child.
For more information call 631-486-6214.